Signwell.com looks decent and let's you have one template and send three contracts per month
Signwell.com looks decent and let's you have one template and send three contracts per month
But pretty sneaky that they charge 0.49$ per contract but the minimum amount to add your account is $50. I send out maybe 2-3 contracts per year.
Oh this actually looks really nice and very fair pricing :)
I think the most interesting thing happening with AI right now isn't it replacing people. It's regular people building things.
www.antonsten.com/articles/bui...
28 years as a designer and I just made my first real animations using Claude Code. No After Effects, no Lottie, no developer handoff. Just describing what I wanted. The tools have finally caught up with how designers actually think.
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I just backed Exit To End on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hjp...
Wrapping up a meaningful 3.5-year chapter with Summer Health and returning to consulting.
Iβm exploring new collaborations for early 2026, especially with seed and Series A teams.
Here are the highlights from my 2025:
www.antonsten.com/articles/2025/
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π Issue 718 is out! This week:
β True design is better than new design
β Japanese letterforms
β The fundamentals problem
β Six key components of UX strategy
β Slots in design systems
β Designing Perplexity
and more.
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Product People Actually Want π
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Learn how to focus on what users actually need, communicate design decisions effectively, and build products that solve real problems.
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Products People Actually Want just went live on Amazon.
Started as frustrated notes about watching teams build things nobody wanted. Now it's something you can leave on your desk or give to that colleague who keeps adding features instead of talking to users.
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En jΓ€vla pangtext av @karinp.bsky.social!
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Yes!
Good research doesn't ask people what to build. It uncovers what's broken.
www.antonsten.com/articles/hen...
Better questions:
- What's frustrating about your current solution?
- Tell me about the last time you struggled with this
- What workarounds have you tried?
You won't hear "faster horses." You'll hear real problems that point to actual solutions.
"If I'd asked people what they wanted, they'd have said faster horses."
This quote gets used to justify skipping user research. But the real problem is the question itself.
"What do you want?" is terrible research.
But the next phase? Tools that anticipate what you need before you've figured it out yourself.
Wrote about personalization, and where design is heading: www.antonsten.com/articles/fro...
One of my readers asked me something I hadn't put into words yet:
"How has design changed from showing what technology can do to actually serving individual needs?"
Short answer: We've moved from "look what this can do" to "here's what this can do for you."
βYouβre absolutely right!β
AI will confidently fill in all the blanks in your thinking.
The problem? Those blanks are where the real design work happens.
If you don't know what your customers want, AI will happily make it up for you. That doesn't mean it's right.
www.antonsten.com/articles/ai-...
Just to love working mornings but actually prefer evenings/nights now... A glass of wine and all of my colleagues in the US are awake!
Most βuser-centeredβ products forget the user.
We design for personas.
We optimize for metrics.
We forget weβre building for real people.
I wrote a book to help change that.
βCaptures what most design resources miss β the human relationships behind great products.β β Kevin Twohy
I didnβt write this book because I had all the answers.
I wrote it because I kept seeing smart people build things no one needed.
Products People Actually Want is about slowing down, asking better questions, and building with care.
βA design mentor in book form.β β Maureen Herben
Itβs never been easier to launch a product.
AI, no-code, tools everywhere.
But the hard part hasnβt changed:
Building something people actually want.
Thatβs what my new book is about.
Products People Actually Want β out now
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I can't wait for Bluesky to acquire Ueno 2.0 #designsky
How to stand out, when anyone can use AI to build anything?
For @antonsten.comSten, most people go for βhow do we build thisβ, instead of asking βwhat should be built that people actually want?β. This leads to a situation, where, most new apps and products, solve, fake problems.
Thanks for sharing Stef! (seems like the mention didn't work)
Anyone can build an app in an afternoon now.
But people changed the question from "how do we build this?" to "what do we build next?", without asking if people actually want it.
The result? An explosion of products that work fine but solve problems that don't exist.
www.antonsten.com/articles/how...
Yes, and which will be a better stock to own in 2-3 years?